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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Relationships</span><span class="f_BodyText"> window displays all connectors between the currently selected element and other elements. This provides a quick overview of an element's relationships in the model.</span></p>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">For each connector, the connector type and target element are displayed. If a '</span><span class="f_BodyText">Yes</span><span class="f_BodyText">' appears in the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Target in Diagram</span><span class="f_BodyText"> column, the target element is visible in the currently loaded diagram. This is useful when you are dragging related elements from the relationships list onto the current diagram.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Double-click on a connector in the list to open the </span><span class="f_UIControl">&lt;connector type&gt; Properties</span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog, where you can edit the connector attributes. Right-click on a connector to open the context menu.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can locate the related element, view the related element properties or delete the connector. You can also hide certain connectors from appearing in diagrams, and show hidden connectors (first example of the menu, below).</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">If an element is not visible in the current diagram, the context menu has an option to place the selected element in the current diagram (second example of the menu, below). This is useful when you are building a picture of what an element interacts with, especially when reverse engineering an existing code base.</span></p>
<p class="p_TextIndentedL2"><img src="relcontext.png" width="220" height="120" border="0" alt="RelContext"><span class="f_TextIndentedL2"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="placeelement.png" width="220" height="120" border="0" alt="PlaceElement"></span></p>
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